NForce 500
NForce 500 is a family of PC chipsets for AMD K8 the company Nvidia and AMD's K9 processors and Intel Pentium 4 / D, Celeron / D and Core 2 processors.
- 2.1 Development
- 2.2 models
- 2.3 Features 2.3.1 Northbridge
- 2.3.2 Southbridge
AMD K8/K9-Serie
Suitable for all processors in the AMD K8 and AMD K9 series.
Development
With the introduction of Socket AM2 Nvidia nForce4 brought revised versions of the nForce 500 on the market. These chipsets are strongly based on the nForce4 and nForce are in the case of 500, 500 and 500 Ultra SLI or 560 SLI driver side partially detected only renamed or changed only marginally and are used only as nForce4.
Models
There are the following options:
- NForce 500
- NForce 500 Ultra
- NForce 500/560 SLI
- NForce 520
- NForce 550
- NForce 560
- NForce 570 Ultra
- NForce 570 SLI
- NForce 590 SLI
The first representatives nForce 500, nForce 500 Ultra and nForce 500 SLI and nForce 560 SLI correspond 1:1 to the nForce4 versions nForce4, nForce4 Ultra, and nForce4 SLI and offer identical features.
The really new nForce 500 series was introduced with the nForce 550, nForce 570 Ultra, nForce 570 SLI and nForce 590 SLI based on the MCP55 and offers over its predecessors a high definition audio interface, but no need for a channel of the Ultra - DMA / 133 controller. Except when nForce 550, the chips were two more SATA ports on a total of six ports (and thus RAID5 ) and extended to twice Gigabit Ethernet. The nForce 570 SLI allowed here again the use of SLI and offers to 28 PCIe lanes, so that a graphics card can still be addressed with 16 PCIe lanes. The nForce 590 SLI then increases the number of PCIe lanes further to 46, so that the cards can be addressed with 16 PCIe lanes using the C51 - additional chip nForce 4 SLI X16 from the known.
The second generation of nForce 500 - series then form the nForce 520 (LE ), nForce 560 and nForce 570 LT SLI based on the MCP65 and MCP61, stripped-down versions of the nForce 550, which is closely related to the MCP68 known as nForce 630a. Great innovation in the MCP65 and MCP68 was to support the AHCI standard. The abgespecktesten variants of this chip, nForce 520 and nForce 520 LE, 10 /100 Mbit Ethernet, only one Ultra-DMA/133-Controller with a channel and in the case of nForce520 LE on MCP61 - based offer only two SATA ports without AHCI and only eight USB 2.0 ports.
Equipment
All chipsets support HT 2.0 with 1 GHz and offer up to 5 PCI slots.
Intel AGTL bus protocol
Suitable for all Intel processors, which use the bus protocol AGTL .
Development
Shortly after the launch of the nForce 500 Series for AMD platform Nvidia also brought a revised version of the nForce4 Intel Edition on the market. It continues the C19 Northbridge was used and the nForce 570i it remained in the MCP430 Southbridge, so that it matches 1:1 with the nForce Ultra 4i or SLI XE. When nForce 590i SLI, however, a nForce4 for AMD platform, the new MCP55 was the outdated Southbridge, actually replaced, which was used in AMD nForce 570 SLI. These two South Bridges should be used when nForce 680i or 650i and 780i and 790i or 750i, which Nvidia on the Intel platform off the chipsets with integrated graphics never supported the AHCI standard.
More importantly, however, was that the motherboards were modified accordingly in order to support the new Core 2 Duo CPUs, which are very few, revised nForce4 did. Nevertheless, it was enough with the old C19 Northbridge only for the first generation of Core 2 Duo with FSB1066 Core 2 Duo or higher FSB Core 2 Quad supported until the new North Bridge of the nForce 600
Models
There are the following options:
- NForce 570i SLI
- NForce 590i SLI